bart ross, the man police are following whether to see if he really did kill judge joan humphrey lefkow's mother and husband, lives three blocks north of my house.

i'm in the news!!! - ahaha. yes, that sounded insensitive. it's unfortunate that he lives in the albany park area - it's one of the most diverse neighborhoods in chicago.

the evidence that links ross to the killings is startling because police found guns and letters in his minivan, that they found, of all places, in west allis, wisconsin. they're still trying to find out why a northside chicago man would go to rural wisconsin. they probably would still be looking if not for a police officer who thought it strange that someone from illinois would park at a town side street, sit there and do nothing. when officer dean puschnig decided to check out the minivan, ross suddenly drove away, making an illegal u-turn. puschnig followed, stopped the car, got out, and dodged a bullet that ross fired into his head.

right now police don't think ross is involved in any white supremacist group, and matt hale's mother is particularly happily vocal about it. the source of all ross' actions seems to stem from a lawsuit against his doctors who treated his cancer and left his face deformed. judge lefkow presided over that case, and dismissed almost all charges.

it looks like revenge, but by someone clearly troubled. "i regret killing husband and mother of judge lefkow as much as i regret that i have to die for the simple reason that they personally did to me no wrong," ross wrote in a letter he sent to NBC 5.

investigators are still pursuing whether he really did kill the lefkows, even when ross has confessed it in his letters. "while we do characterize (wednesday) night's developments as significant, we are not prepared at this time to definitely say any one person is responsible for these homicides. this case is by no means closed," chicago police superintendent phil cline said in a news conference this afternoon.